Fastening or clasping device



J. A. TURNBULL.

FASTENING OR ULASPING DEVICE.

(N0 Modl.)

No. 423,000. Patentedlvlar. 11, 1890.

A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JAMES A. TURNBULL, OF ESSEX COUNTY, NEWV JER$EY.

FASTENING OR CLASPING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,000, dated March11, 1890. Application filed June 2 0, 1889. Serial No. 314,963. (Nomodel.)

packages, which will hold firmly and be easily released.

The device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which likeletters refer to like parts.

Figure 1 is a horizontal view of a split ring.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with tape or cord attached. Fig. 8 isa horizontal view of split ring with tape attached and an upper ringlinked with the tape and lowered to its position on the top of lowerring. Fig. 4 is an edgeview of the two rings locked by the cord or tape,looking at the front. Fig. 5 is a plan or top View of the same. Fig. 6is a horizontal view of the same with the tape entering the split of thelower ring from the outer side. Fig. 7 shows the device with the tapeinclosi-ng the package.

A is a split ring, as illustrated in Fig. 1, to one side of which isattached a tape or cord 1).

O is another ring, which need not be split, which overlies the splitring and co-operates therewith and with the tape to fasten and unfastenthe bundle or package. The tape or cord is passed around the package orother article intended to be secured and introduced into the ring A frombeneath, and thence through the ring 0, thence around over the top andembracing one edge of ring 0, and then between the circumferential edgesof the two rings through the split lips of the ring A, leaving theopposite edge of ring Ofree to be used as a handle to unfasten theclasp.

The foregoing is the arrangement of rings and tape which I prefer; butthe cord or tape, 5

after passing through the rings and over the top one C, may be enteredthrough the split of the ring A from the outside, passing therethroughinwardly, as illustrated in Fig. 6..

The operation of my device is such that when the tape embraces a packageand is drawn through the clasp by the end I) of the tape 5 until it istight around the package the clasp operates to hold it firmly in thatposition, and when it is desired to release the package by loosening thetape this is done by grasping the ring 0 and drawing the same backward.Thus the ring 0 co-operates with the ring A and the tape or cord tosecure the package, and at the same time serves as a handle to begrasped in releasing it.

Although my improvement is primarily de signed for bundles or packages,it may be used with anything to which it is applicable.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fastening or clasping device, a split ring, to one side of whichis secured the end of a tape or cord which passes through the ring, incombination with a free ring through which the tape passes and about andaround one side of which the tape is turned so as to leave the otherside free;to be handled and thence passed through the lips of the splitring.

2. In a fastening device, a split ring, as A, having a cord ortapefastened to one edge, in combination with a free ring,as O ,ar'

ranged with the cord or tape passing through both rings over the upperone, then between it and lower one, and then through lips of split ringpassing from the inside outwardly.

JAMES A. TURNBULL.

Witnesses:

HARRY M. PETERS, JAMES L. STEUART.

